First, a WARNING for anyone who may come across this review, if you have a copy of the book with "The Importance of Being Bachman" as the introduction, DO NOT read it before the story!
In this 'introduction', King completely spoils the ending of the novel. He also talks about [b:The Dark Half|11597|The Dark Half|Stephen King|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1430122353l/11597._SY75_.jpg|1316297] quite a lot (he talks about the main plot, so beware if you don't want to read any kind of spoiler), and he mentions [b:Desperation|10584|Desperation|Stephen King|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1395764566l/10584._SY75_.jpg|14015] and [b:The Regulators|10596|The Regulators|Richard Bachman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1554402378l/10596._SY75_.jpg|955346] (no spoilers for these two, he just talks about how the stories are related).
Anyways, this was a really fast-paced and unpredictable story. I can't lie, the beginning put me off a little, Bachman's tone is somewhat different from King. Like King himself points out, Bachman is a more of a pessimist, and in this particular story this pessimism reflects on the main character's attitude towards literally everything. But at the same time, Ben Richard's attitude is somewhat understandable as it's a direct result of poverty.
I loved the book from the moment the chase, the "run", started. Ben is an extremely resourceful character and his next steps were always unpredictable.
I had a couple of possible endings in mind as I read the book but there were so many twists in the second half of the story that the ending still took me by surprise.